Hi, trying to catch back on my reading habit this year and I’d like to read at least 1 book a month. To start, I want some easy to read suspense/crime ones!
Titles I loved:
Nine Perfect Strangers
Big Little Lies
Lost Girls
Silence of the Lambs
You
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
, Luckiest Girl Alive.
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Sharp Objects!
Crime/ mystery novel less than 250 pages with a bunch of really good twists and turns. The author Gillian Flynn has two more books – Dark Places and Gone Girl – highly recommend those as well. 🙂
Penpal is great!
If you’re intrigued by historical mysteries, ‘The Alienist’ by Caleb Carr is a novel I often recommend. Set in 19th-century New York, the story follows a psychologist, or ‘alienist,’ and his team as they use emerging forensic methods to track a serial killer.
If you are willing to be curious about nonfiction there are quite a bunch that read similarly to fiction. For example, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, and Going Clear by Lawrence Wright.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson is a good, easy read, and suspenseful, even though it’s technically a YA novel (and it’s a trilogy, so there’s a couple more that follow it).
Following!
Have you read any of Tom Harris’s other Hannible Lecter books?
I found them as good, if not better, than “SOL”.
My SIL gave me one of them because she wanted to get it out of her apartment.
I intern passed it to a lady who worked in the same building. She, in turn passed it along to 16 other female members of her church. The only reason the count stopped at 17 was the Pastor caught his wife and daughter reading it. He was not amused.
The Guest List by Lucy Foley!
The Housemaid series. It’s on kindle unlimited too.
I’m almost through with “the woman in the window” by AJ Finn and I was able to blow through a couple hundred pages in one sitting.
Greetings from Witness Protection! (Middle grade, but the characters and story are really well-developed. It’s got some coming-of-age and some crime/thriller/suspense.)